Extent: 164, ii leaves : paper ; 180 x 130 (125 x 90) mm. bound to 180 x 135 mm.
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Ms. codex. Title from illuminated title page (fol. 3a). Physical description: 13 lines per page. Written in medium small naskh in black ink with use of red. Illuminated title page (ʻunwān) in gold, blue and red (fol. 3a). The text is framed within a frame consisting of a line in gold outlined in black and a blue line on fol. 3b-4a. Light cream paper, glossy, with laid and chain lines visible. Several inscriptions on fol. 3a, including ownership... Inscription in Arabic script on a label pasted on the doublure of the upper cover: "95". Inscription in pencil using Western numerals on the doublure of the upper cover: "123". Origin: Copy completed in the first decade of Rabīʻ al-Awwal 825 [Feb.-March 1422], in Cairo ("al-Qāhirah") (colophon, fol. 164b). Collation: Paper, fol. 164, ii ; ii (later added fol.; fol. 1-2 in the modern foliation) 18 (-1 before fol. 3) 2-310 412 5-1610 174 (-1 after fol. 164) ii (later added fol.) ; the quires are numbered in red ink using Arabic ordinals in the form "al-Thālith" (see fol. 20a), partly cut off due to the trimming of the pages ; catchword on the verso of some leaves. Several ownership statements with seals on fol. 3a. Impressions of a seal with the inscription: "ʻAbd al-Rāziq 1248" on fol. 2a. Acquired from Abraham Shalom Yahuda, 1942.
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